We were going to be outside for 4 days and seeing as how we have to carry a lot of gear including our canoe, I carried only the bare minimum of necessities. Necessities such as toilet paper - which I didn't even get to use (more on that later.)
To get to our campsite in Algonquin National park, we had to first drive 3 hours, then rent a canoe and carry all our gear in said canoe for 6 hours of both on water and over hills. We started off on our journey sometimes after 9am and only managed to arrive by 3pm. We had to carry our gear and canoe over 3 hills battle head on wind conditions. But finally we arrived at our campsite and was able to relax. It was just in time too because the storm clouds were moving in and would start to downpour throughout the night.
As we settled into our campsite we set up camp and made good use of the natural fire pit to roast some marshmallows and chomp away at our supply of food. By this time it was already around 9pm and we were just chilling around the campsite talking about David - the friend who was going to be late.
Ok a little back story about David. We originally planned the trip for everyone to get there together. But since David works on Friday he decided to join us later on. We had left the mainland around 9am together as a group of 8 people with 4 canoes. We had Roman, my friend who has been camping in Manitou lake before and can navigate the maze like waters using a store bought map and his previous knowledge of the terrain. It was already really hard for the 8 of us using our combined skills together to get to the camp site in daylight, so we figured David is probably not going to show up this night since it was already dark and he has never been here before.
So here we were just sitting around the camp fire discussing about the possible death and mutilation of David at the hands of bears or the tides. When Adam decided that maybe David can find out campsite if we shouted really loud.
"DAVID!" Shouted Adam into the cold still night.
When suddenly out of nowwhere: "Hey what's up!"
It was none other than David who camp rowing into the campsite on his own in flip flops. We were incredulous and taken aback. This unassuming little Asian man had rowed his own way into our campsite in complete darkness, and when asked how he found us he answered non chalantly: "I followed the fireflies." As if that was the most logical response.
The following 3 days passed fairly quickly with us doing camping stuff such as getting firewood, eating and followed by chilling around the camp fire.
The last night of camping everyone finished the rest of the food we had along with our food. We were plastered and the only sober people on that island were in charge of baby sitting us. Daivid for all his manliness was seen puking by the lake and completely passed out in his underwear. Sometime near the end of the day he decided to go underwear only and proceeded to air hump everyone and everything.
We did see a lot of stars that last night and fireflies! So David wasn't lying! It was a really great way to end off the camping trip.
On on my toilet paper story, in the morning I couldn't find any toilet paper so I had to use my underwear. All part of the great Canadian outdoors experience I guess haha.
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| We caught a fish! |
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